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ebibo

ebibo, to drink up, drain

ē-bĭbo, bi, bĭtum, 3, v. a., to drink up, drain (not in Cic. or Caes.).
  • I Lit.: quid comedent? quid ebibent? Ter. Heaut. 255; so with comedere, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 20 (242); id. Ps. 5, 2, 11 (1295); hirneam vini, id. Am. 1, 1, 276 (428): poculum, id. Curc. 2, 3, 80 (359): ubera lactantia, Ov. M. 6, 342 et saep.: elephantos dracones, i.e. to suck their blood, Plin. 8, 12, 12, § 34; cf. sanguinem, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 65 (160): cum vino simitu imperium, to drink up, forget through drinking, Plaut. Am. 2, 1, 84 (634) (cf. in the simplex: bibere mandata, id. Pers. 2, 1, 3 (170), v. bibo).—Poet.: invenies illic, qui Nestoris ebibat annos, to drink the age of Nestor (i. e. to drink as many glasses as equal the years of Nestor), Ov. F. 3, 533. —
    • B Transf., of inanimate things, to suck in, draw in, absorb: (fretum) peregrinos amnes, Ov. M. 8, 837; cf. Plin. 5, 15, 15, § 71: saniem (lana), id. 9, 38, 62, 134.—
  • II In gen., to waste in drink, squander, Hor. S. 2, 3, 122. —
  • III Trop., to exhaust, remove, take away: spiritum meum, Vulg. Job 6, 4.

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